Countdown

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Overview

Countdown allows you to implement a simple countdown to a specific date in your web pages. You can have the countdown accurate to the second, minute, hour, day, month or year. Currently it is not implemented as a Server Side Include and requires that you point to the countdown script as a separate page in order to work, however instructions are available in the Frequently Asked Questions section detailing how to change the script to be implemented as a Server Side Include. There are several downloading options available below and more information on this script can be found in the Readme file.

Readme

The Readme files at Matt's Script Archive contain detailed installation, configuration and usage instructions, which take you step by step from placing the scripts on your system to using them in your web pages. You should read these through and keep them by you when setting up or installing any MSA script. It is probably not a bad idea to print them out. Each compressed script package contains a plain text version of the Readme file, however the links below will take you to their HTML counterparts.

Downloading

Countdown can be downloaded in several different formats, or you can even have it mailed to you as a uuencoded file. Click on one of the links below to the appropriately compressed file and download options will appear.
    • countdown.tar.gz (5.1K)
    • countdown.zip (5.5K)
    • countdown.tar.Z (8.1K)
    • countdown.tar (20.5K)

    • You can also view each file individually:

      countdown.pl
      This is the perl script which calculates the amount of time until specified event occurs and then prints out the information.
      README
      Includes installation instructions and a detailed description of how to set it up to work on your server.
      countdown.html
      A small HTML file that shows several examples of how to implement the countdown script.

Working Demo

Several scripts at Matt's Script Archive lend themselves well to local working demonstrations. The Countdown is one of these and the working demo of it is available below. More examples of this script in action can be found in the 'Scripts Around the World' section of MSA.

Frequently Asked Questions

The Frequently Asked Questions Archive at MSA is the easiest and fastest way to get help. It contains a list of the most commonly asked questions as well as their answers. Check these out before you seek other means of help, as your question may be answered here already.

Countdown in Action

If you wish to see examples of Matt's Script Archive's CGI scripts used around the internet, you only need to check the Scripts Around the World section. See what the scripts look like in action on real web pages, but be considerate as these are actual implementations.


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